23 Notable alumni of
Osaka University of Arts
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The Osaka University of Arts is 333rd in the world, 63rd in Asia, and 27th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the Osaka University of Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hideaki Anno
- Enrolled in the Osaka University of Arts
- Studied in 1980-1983
- Occupations
- animatorfilm directormanaging directoractorseiyū
- Biography
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Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and actor. His most celebrated creation, the Evangelion franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industry and Japanese popular culture. Anno's style is defined by his postmodernist approach and the extensive portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions.
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Tadao Ando
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Tadao Ando is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
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Hisako, Princess Takamado
- Occupations
- translatoraristocratchildren's writer
- Biography
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Hisako, Princess Takamado, is a member of the Japanese Imperial Family as the widow of Norihito, Prince Takamado.
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Arata Furuta
- Occupations
- actorseiyū
- Biography
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Arata Furuta is a Japanese theatre and film character actor.
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Koji Kondo
- Occupations
- composerpianistsound designer
- Biography
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Koji Kondo is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984 as their first dedicated composer and is currently a Senior Officer at their Entertainment Planning & Development division.
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Masami Okui
- Occupations
- DJ producerrecording artistradio personalitycomposerlyricist
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Masami Okui is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Itami, Hyōgo. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer. From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime television and movies. She is especially well known for her songs from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tales of Eternia The Animation, Slayers, Sorcerer Hunters, Di Gi Charat, Magic User's Club, Jungle de Ikou!, Akihabara Dennou Gumi, Ray the Animation, He Is My Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. She has performed material for more than 50 singles and 20 albums to date (including her work with JAM Project and Chihiro Yonekura). Okui hosts @Tunes, an anime music news program, on the Japanese anime television network Animax.
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Fumito Ueda
- Occupations
- artistvideo game developervideo game director
- Biography
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Fumito Ueda is a Japanese video game designer. Ueda is best known as the director and lead designer of Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005) while leading Team Ico at Japan Studio, and The Last Guardian (2016) through his own development company GenDesign. His games have achieved cult status and are distinguished by their usage of minimal plot and scenario using fictional languages, and use of overexposed, desaturated light. He has been described by some as an auteur of video games.
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Takashi Tezuka
- Occupations
- video game producerscreenwritercomputer scientistprogrammer
- Biography
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Takashi Tezuka is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He is a senior officer in Nintendo's Entertainment Planning & Development division and is an Executive Officer at Nintendo itself.
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Koji Kanemoto
- Occupations
- managerstage actorprofessional wrestleractor
- Biography
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Kōji Kanemoto is a Japanese professional wrestler of Zainichi Korean descent. He has previously worked with New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He is currently a freelancer.
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Hiroyuki Yamaga
- Occupations
- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Hiroyuki Yamaga is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989).
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Yoshiaki Koizumi
- Occupations
- computer scientistvideo game directorgame designer
- Biography
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Yoshiaki Koizumi is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer, and business executive. He is a senior executive officer at Nintendo and a deputy general manager at Nintendo EPD, where he is known for his work within their Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, and as the General Producer of the Nintendo Switch. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time. Koizumi is also on the board of directors of Nintendo Pictures.
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Hidetaka Suehiro
- Occupations
- video game producer
- Biography
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Hidetaka Suehiro, known as SWERY or Swery65, is a Japanese video game director and writer. He was one of the founding members of the game development studio Access Games which is based in Osaka. His roles in the company included director, designer, and writer. He is the director of the games Spy Fiction, Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die. He then left the company in 2016, and he founded his own studio, named White Owls Inc.
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Nobuhiro Yamashita
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Nobuhiro Yamashita is a Japanese film director.
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Range Murata
- Occupations
- mangakadesignercharacter designerillustrator
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Range Murata is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, known for his unique style combining dieselpunk and japanese moé elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6.
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Yoshio Sakamoto
- Occupations
- video game producerscreenwritercomputer scientistvideo game developer
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Yoshio Sakamoto is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He has worked at Nintendo since 1982. He has directed several games in the Metroid series. He is one of the most prominent members of Nintendo's former Research and Development 1 division, along with Gunpei Yokoi and Toru Osawa.
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Takami Akai
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- film screenwriterfilm directorillustratoranimatorvideo game director
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Takami Akai is an illustrator, game creator, character designer and animator born on November 21, 1961, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
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Hisashi Nogami
- Occupations
- video game producerdesignerdirectorvideo game developer
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Hisashi Nogami is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer at Nintendo. He is best known as the creator of the Animal Crossing and Splatoon franchises.
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Novala Takemoto
- Occupations
- picture book writersinger-songwritercriticnovelistlyricist
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Novala Takemoto is the professional name of Toshiaki Takemoto (嶽本 稔明, Takemoto Toshiaki), a Japanese author, and fashion designer.
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Kensuke Tanabe
- Occupations
- video game producervideo game designervideo game directorvideo game developer
- Biography
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Kensuke Tanabe is a Japanese video game producer and designer working for Nintendo, where he currently is Senior Officer at Nintendo EPD.
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Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kazuyoshi Kumakiri is a Japanese film director.
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Masahiko Minami
- Occupations
- film producertelevision producer
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Masahiko Minami is a Japanese anime producer and president of Bones. Born in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
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Katsushi Takemura
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Katsushi Takemura is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, mostly known for his ring name Takemura (written in all capitals). Having worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling for most of his career, he was an occasional member of the renowned stable Tokyo Gurentai.
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Takeshi Yamada
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Takeshi Yamada is a Japanese-American artist and rogue taxidermist.
